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Have you ever read a fic with an OC that was almost a Mary Sue, but still a good OC? A songfic that actually made sense in context and wasn't annoying? An AU that gave a lot of thought to what it was doing?

Rec 'em here! Or at least talk about them if you don't have a link.

I'm not sure whether I'm going to regret this . . .

So I found a Friendship is Magic fic that:

* Starred an aged-up Spike, years after the show.
* Had Spike grow up to be physically attractive by pony standards.
* Used the fanonical conceit of ponies grouping into "herds," with mares outnumbering stallions in the herds due to a much higher birth rate of mares.
* Had a subplot involving dragons as guardians of Equestria who'd fallen from grace and lost sight of their purpose. (Yes, this fic has sexy Spike AND hero Spike!)
* Was rated Mature for sex.
* Made all the characters humanoid bipeds, because the author thought the idea of pony sex was kind of gross.
* Was written by an author whose first language clearly wasn't English.

Yeah, this had all the signs for "trainwreck." But I read the prologue anyway, and I was surprised by how much emotion the author put into it. His version of Spike is a very likable protagonist, wanting attention but afraid he doesn't deserve it, in way over his head from the start, but rolling with whatever fate deals him. The girls are charming, too, and unlike in a lot of romance fics, they have goals and desires apart from the MC and expectations for him to fulfill. I was also intrigued by the worldbuilding--it's a setting where society is close to egalitarian, but leans mildly sexist in favor of women, with men considered attractive if they're strong but submissive, which opens up all sorts of reversals on standard tropes and interactions.

I'm not even close to an unbiased party here--I signed on as the story's first editor, and I've had a lot of influence on how it played out. The author actually offered me a co-writer position at one point, though I turned it down. But before I signed on to edit, I saw potential in that first awkward chapter, and I'm proud to have helped make it all it could be.

Of Dragons and Mortals. Messy, awkward, and fun--a lot like its subject matter.

I couldn't find it now, I don't think, but I once found a HP fic where Harry had a cousin who turned out to have special mind-controlling abilities which meant she was being hunted by Voldemort. She could have been a Mary Sue, but between the backstory explaining how she came to be born, and her being shown to be a muggle who really doesn't understand what is happening around her and things happen to save her more or less by luck, she managed not to fall into the MS side.

The other that I can't help think of was Mirror of Maybe, where Harry got pulled into a magic mirror, lived practically a whole life of what could happen in his future before being spat out again. He then uses the knowledge of that life to assume a new identity so he can try prevent the worst of the war he lived through. Harry ends up rather Stu-ish because of his knowledge and training, but I still liked the story. The big problem I think is that it's one of those big fandom epics that never got finished.

Ahh, yeah, a lot of really good fics never got finished, or they took so long to get finished I lost interest, and was like "wait, that fic's still being updated?" when they were finally completed five years later. I understood why, I had a lot of unfinished WIPs too, but it wasn't so easy to follow them when that happened.

Both fics sound really interesting! :)

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